The Federal Construction
Intel Brief
Where federal-aid money landed last month, what's bidding next, and what to do about it.
For contractors in the Carolinas and Virginia who work federally-funded construction — or want to. One short, practical read on the first Thursday of every month.
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What you get every month
Five sections · one read · built to act on
- › Where the money landed. Last month's federal-aid prime awards in the Carolinas and Virginia — by state, prime, county, and scope.
- › Opening soon. The federal-aid bidding calendar that matters — NCDOT, SCDOT, VDOT, FAA, FTA, EPA SRF.
- › Pipeline watch. Federally-funded entities about to procure construction — municipalities, utilities, airports, transit. The work no one else is tracking yet.
- › The practitioner note. One piece of Davis-Bacon hard-won wisdom each month — regulatory updates, audit lessons, classification calls.
- › This month's 5 moves. Concrete actions every reader can take this month — tiered for subs, small/mid GCs, and federal-aid primes.
Your Q2 2026 Federal-Aid Construction Wrap — Carolinas and Virginia
The moment you subscribe, your welcome email arrives with the full Q2 wrap:
› $645M in federal-aid prime contracts across the Carolinas and Virginia last quarter
› The Top 10 awards by dollar value, with primes, counties, and scope
› Action items for subs, small/mid GCs, and federal-aid primes
› The pipeline that's about to procure construction work in NC over the next 18 months
Who's behind it
I'm Darcie Gregoire. I run PayrollProof, the specialized Davis-Bacon and IRA prevailing wage compliance practice for federally-funded construction in the Carolinas and Virginia.
Before building this practice, I spent years at the U.S. Department of Labor as a Wage and Hour Investigator — the person on the other end of the audit. After that, I ran HR for an 850-employee general contractor that lived and breathed federal-aid work.
This newsletter exists because most of what makes federal-aid construction hard isn't the regulations — it's that the intelligence and the practitioner know-how live in different rooms. I'm pulling them together here.
Former U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Investigator
Former HR Director, 850-employee general contractor
SPHR · SHRM-SCP credentialed
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